Holiday's

Happy Holiday's from the monighandesign family!  Looking forward to the new year.  As a reminder, our office will be closed from Dec. 24 - January 4, 2010. 

Hotel on the Stockton Waterfront

 Hospitality projects provide an opportunity to create places in which the little things really matter.  Context, connection, branding and comfort require a team of people, sometimes even more than one design firm, and we seek out projects with opportunities to collaborate and ideate with other professionals.

 

The Orleans

The Orleans, once known as the Gold Rush-era hotel where California’s early state politics took form, once again takes its place as an iconic building in Old Sacramento. monighandesign in Sacramento, Calif., fastidiously re-created the three-story street-front to match the 1865 original architectural proportions and details.

No longer a hotel, the building re-opened in late 2008 as a mixed-use space including 24 lofts with ground-floor retail and a high-end restaurant. Its neighboring buildings – the Union Hotel and the Adams Express –are more than 150-years-old and were essential in calculating the Orleans’ restored scale and style.

“The Orleans has returned to be part of this historic fabric. People who don’t know that it’s a re-creation have no idea that it wasn’t there for the past 150 years,” says Monighan. “It’s been very satisfying to fill the historic district in a way that hadn’t been accomplished for 30 years.”